TL-180

TL-180

Let's pretend you're a jet-set 20-something who splits her time between Rome and Paris. Let's pretend that you've always loved your mother's classic Italian leather handbags, but they so weren't for you. The solution? Grab your best friend, traverse your hometown finding the top materials and craftsmen, and make the modern dream bags yourselves. Such is the life of TL-180, the nascent accessory line created by BFFs Tine Peduzzi and Luisa Orsini. The name is based on their initials and combined height—in centimeters.

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TL-180

TL-180

Inspired by the German sculptor Anslem Kiefer (both a friend and mentor to the girls), the label's bags have classic shapes, skewed with modern touches like a hexagonal frame or a sculptural handle made from twisted pieces of steel. This Fashion Week, they present their wares to the New York style crowd for the first time with an intimate downtown bash. They've lured beauty maven Claire Courtin-Clarins to DJ, and commissioned the artist Langley Fox, a.k.a. Dree Hemingway's little sister, to make the invitations. How do you say "I'm on the list" in Italian?

TL-180

Let's pretend you're a jet-set 20-something who splits her time between Rome and Paris. Let's pretend that you've always loved your mother's classic Italian leather handbags, but they so weren't for you. The solution? Grab your best friend, traverse your hometown finding the top materials and craftsmen, and make the modern dream bags yourselves. Such is the life of TL-180, the nascent accessory line created by BFFs Tine Peduzzi and Luisa Orsini. The name is based on their initials and combined height—in centimeters.

Courtesy of TL-180

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TL-180

Inspired by the German sculptor Anslem Kiefer (both a friend and mentor to the girls), the label's bags have classic shapes, skewed with modern touches like a hexagonal frame or a sculptural handle made from twisted pieces of steel. This Fashion Week, they present their wares to the New York style crowd for the first time with an intimate downtown bash. They've lured beauty maven Claire Courtin-Clarins to DJ, and commissioned the artist Langley Fox, a.k.a. Dree Hemingway's little sister, to make the invitations. How do you say "I'm on the list" in Italian?

Courtesy of TL-180

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Erin Barr

Barr began her career as a hair and makeup artist, which may explain why her clothes are all about highlighting women instead of covering them up: think skirts with elliptical slits paired with high-necked tanks, and long-sleeved lace dresses that are definitely date-night approved. "This season is about going back to nature. After my debut at New York Fashion Week in September, I traveled back home to the midwest and spent some time in my family's Wisconsin cabin… I knew immediately that I wanted to escape to nature this Fall."

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Erin Barr

While Barr cites icy blues as part of her collection palette, there's nothing frigid about the designer's affection for her work and her peers. When asked about her former boss, Alexander Wang, Barr responds with warm enthusiasm. "Alex was always so kind and incredibly involved. Even as an intern, he really made you feel like a member of his team. He really deserves all his success!" We're positive the feeling is mutual.

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Nonoo

Yes, Misha Nonoo is the British designer who famously got Lana Del Rey to sing at her wedding. And okay, according to the oh-so-reliable London tabloids, she's friends with Kate Middleton. But the young designer—whose unusual name comes from her family's roots in Bahrain—has a track record that speaks beyond any Page Six mention.

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Nonoo

Thanks to a steady stream of chic separates and sophisticated dresses worn by the likes of Amanda Seyfried, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Blake Lively, it's the clothes we're obsessing over. Proof of its extra-special powers? Even Kristen Stewart looked like a fresh-scrubbed Ivy Leaguer when she recently wore the line. It seems dressing celebrities is easy when your velvet jackets and vibrant red dresses are clothing stars themselves.

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Titania Inglis

If you prefer your fashion to be ghostly, angular, and elegantly crooked, you might want to jot down the name Titania Inglis. The Ithaca, New York, native makes aloofly pretty designs that tend to either float past you in a fairy daze or slice through the air like a fabric ninja. Her fashion pedigree includes stints with avant-garde labels like Camilla Staerk and threeASFOUR, plus some study abroad time in Denmark and Belgium that honed her penchant for mixing solid fabrics like leather with ethereal chiffon layers.

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Titania Inglis

Last year, Inglis won the Ecco Domani Award for Sustainable Fashion Design; this year, she closes out Milk Studios' Fashion Week roster. Look for reindeer skin outerwear, bias-cut T-shirt dresses, and coats made from old police uniforms. "I work with an incredible warehouse in the Chelsea gallery district," she explains. "They have five floors of dead stock fabric." But in Inglis's hands, the cloth will most certainly come alive.

Courtesy of Titania Inglis

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Boast

Technically, Boast isn't a new fashion line: It was created in 1973, when Connecticut tennis pro Bill St. John began sewing marijuana plants—sorry, maple leaves—on his polo shirts, leading to notoriety on both country club golf courses and college campuses. (The Yale squash team famously wore Boast polos as a uniform.) Now 40 years later, the label resurfaces under designer Daniel Pepice at New York Fashion Week, complete with an extra boost: They're getting help from Partners & Spade, the design firm created by Jack Spade's mastermind (and Kate Spade's husband) Andy.

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Boast

Next week, Pepice takes his preppy '70s inspirations to the catwalk as Boast debuts their collection in (where else?) The Harvard Club. "For Fall 2013, we expanded the offering to include smart, tailored styles while keeping a really loose and irreverent approach in knits," says Pepice. If you don't see at least one Royal Tenenbaum there, you've probably had too many martinis.